Why to publish Open Access
Why to publish Open AccessJoshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view.
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Open Access eBooks: the next big thing?
Open Access eBooks: the next big thing?A well researched article on the development in open access book publishing.
There are several models: from free to read (all rights reserved); to free to use and reuse (CC-BY); to non commercial and/or no derivatives. In terms of formats, it’s a case of online versus downloads. From online reading only (HTML, e-reader formats) to PDF (personal copy) or both. OA book publishing motives range from front list publishing to a back list long tail approach. Some have a dedicated OA programme or service traditional monographs.
The costs of Open Access
The costs of Open AccessThe Sanford C. Berstein Research, widely recognized as Wall Street’s premier sell-side research firm in releasing independent surveys of major institutional clients, has published data on Elsevier’s possible cost savings due to the probable introduction of open access:
We estimate that a full transition to OA could lead to savings in the region of 10-12% of the cost base of a subscription publisher.
Responses to 50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication
The recent blogpost 50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science in the Huffington Post by Dr. Douglas Fields generated quite a few responses.
Have a look at the whole story: See also our post from October, 20th 2012.
What an academic article of the future should look like
What an academic article of the future should look likeIn this article, the author says, that adding value to scholarly publishing is about spending more time with the content. But from a researcher’s perspective time could only be spent with articles which got selected as relevant for the research topic.
50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science
50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming ScienceDr. Douglas Fields draws out the dark sides of the shift currently happening in the publishing industry.
Newsweek is dead. But we have Twitter. Harper-Collins just closed its last warehouse of books in the United States. Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher of scholarly books and journals in the world, printing continuously since 1584, ceased printing operations this year and will outsource printing to another company. The Press survived tumultuous changes since the Middle Ages — the coming and going of plagues, the rise and fall of empires, wars and famine — but it could not sustain itself in the new environment of digital publication and self-publication that the electronic medium feeds.
Dr. Douglas Fields. Huff Post. Science. The Blog.
See also the comments by Björn Brembs, declaring that Fields is wrong on open access.
Please have a look at this post by Jalees Rehman, cell biologist and as a physician at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), too.
Why have publishing strategies colours?
Why have publishing strategies colours?A colour guide by Bill Hubbard project manager of the SHERPA Repositories Support Project, University of Nottingham, UK.
Reputation Factor in Economic Publishing
Reputation Factor in Economic PublishingDaniel Scott, Founder and Director of Social Sciences Directory and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation OKFN, sets a guideline by listing the next four steps to overcome reputation:
- (…) Who needs journals? What you want is a large collection of articles that are well indexed and easily searchable, and freely available. (…) It will increase usage and reduce cost-per-download (…) whilst helping to increase citation and impact.
- Ensure quality control of peer review by setting guidelines and adhering to them.
- De-couple the link between publishing and tenure & department funding.
- (…) University administrators need to take the bold decision to change, to pick an end date as a ‘cut off’ after which they will publicly state that they are switching to new policies in support of OA. (…) Editors, authors and reviewers will be encouraged to offer their services elsewhere, which will in turn rapidly build the reputation of new publications.
It’s time for universities to reclaim publishing rights
It's time for universities to reclaim publishing rightsUnless universities are bolder, open-access policies will leave control of publicly funded research in commercial publishers’ hands, says Debby Shorley, director of library services at Imperial College London:
Maybe the real benefit of the Finch report is not that it gives us a solution—it doesn’t—but that it has sparked discussion in high places. It may make those involved in publicly funded research bold enough to turn the current scholarly communications model on its head and allow our universities to regain control of their intellectual capital by disseminating the research they produce. (…) Publishing skills are publishing skills. What stops us from bringing them in-house, and using the prestige of our universities as brands?
The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012
The 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012The Munin conference is an annual conference on scientific publishing, with an Open Access approach. The duration of the conference this year will be held at 22–23 November 2012 at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
See the conference’s program on open access and how publishers see their publishing process could work in the future.
Registration is open until November 9th 2012 (registration is not free of charge).
